RBC Wealth Management partners with SportsAid to support budding athletes

RBC
Wealth Management, part of Royal Bank of Canada, today announced a new partnership
with SportsAid, the national charity which helps young, talented athletes to
achieve their ambitions.

Twenty-one athletes from the
UK and Jersey, all aged between 11 and 19 and specialising in sports including
athletics, boxing, cycling, skiing, swimming and tennis will each receive a
£1,000 SportsAid Award from RBC Wealth Management this year. The funding will
help these dedicated young
athletes to fulfill their potential by helping
them with essential training costs, travel and competition expenses. Among
them are some of Britain's brightest hopes for future Olympic, Paralympic, Commonwealth and world championship success, including Sochi winter Paralympian James Whitley, 16 from Polegate,
and junior European champion gymnast Keri Rothwell Douglas, 18 from London.

"This will make a
significant contribution to my equipment and travel costs," said James Whitley,
who recently returned from the Paralympics in Russia.

"This SportsAid Award
from RBC Wealth Management will benefit me and my family greatly," added Keri
Rothwell Douglas. "Both my mum and dad dedicate a lot of their money to support
my training and the recognition makes it all worth it."

Tim
Lawler, Chief Executive of SportsAid said, "This will make an enormous difference
to these athletes who are without doubt some of the nation's brightest
prospects. The cost of their sport is a daily challenge so the support of RBC
Wealth Management will be a massive boost. This is an exciting new partnership for
SportsAid and it will make an instant impact."

Philip
Harris, Head of Private Clients, UK, RBC Wealth Management, commented, "Royal Bank of Canada has taken an active interest
in developing young athletes for over six decades, and is the longest-standing
corporate supporter of Canada's Olympic Team. It is hard to grasp the
dedication and sacrifice of these incredible individuals, often from a very
early age, in their quest to become international champions.

"We are very pleased to be supporting the aims of SportsAid, which
has such an excellent track record in fostering the best of British sporting talent.
It will be thrilling to follow the progress of these budding athletes."

SportsAid is the only national charity of its kind, proudly supporting young British sportsmen and women who aspire to be our next Olympic, Paralympic, Commonwealth and world champions. Its patron is Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. Typically aged 12 to 18, SportsAid athletes typically train for more than 15 hours a week before and after school, travel more than 1,000 miles a month and spend more than £6,000 a year on their sport. Without SportsAid many could not continue and their sports could not replace the funding the charity provides. The impact on British sport is huge: at London 2012 20 of Team GB's 29 Olympic gold medals and 27 of ParalympicsGB's 34 gold medals were won by athletes previously supported by SportsAid.

RBC Wealth Management is one of the world's top 10 largest wealth managers*. RBC Wealth Management directly serves affluent, high-net-worth and ultra-high net worth clients in Canada, the United States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia with a full suite of banking, investment, trust and other wealth management solutions. The business also provides asset management products and services directly and through RBC and third party distributors to institutional and individual clients, through its RBC Global Asset Management business (which includes BlueBay Asset Management). RBC Wealth Management has more than C$675 billion of assets under administration, more than C$411 billion of assets under management and over 4,400 financial consultants, advisors, private bankers, and trust officers. For more information, please visit www.rbcwealthmanagement.com

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Olympic gold medallists Anna Watkins, Dame Mary Peters, Duncan Goodhew, Heather Stanning, James Cracknell, Mark Hunter and Steve Williams and more will be attending SportsAid's Elton John concert on June 28. Tickets are still available from Ticketmaster for the event.

SportsAid fundraiser Matthew Gambles is joining former world champion swimmer Mark Foster in the team relay at the London Triathlon tomorrow in a bid to raise money for young people with Olympic and Paralympic ambitions.